form equivalent in Flash CS3 / AS 3.0

Hi --
I am building a form with data I want to send to my web app
(ASP page.) Is
there an easy way to group my data into the new URLVariables
class so that
my form data is auto-collected and can be sent via a POST
rather than
creating new properties of the URLVariable and manually
assigning the values
entered in by the user?
Thanks
Rich

Hi Again,
This appears to be an error with Flash because I set the
width = 0 and then
changed the "autoSize" value and the label is visible but
regardless of how
much text I put in the label width always equals 0.
Rich
"kglad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:feeb1e$t5$[email protected]..
> you probably need to use a time delay to check the
width. somethings in
> flash just don't get updated immediately.

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Hi,
When I ran Secunia Software Inspector today it told me that
the version of Java I have installed on my computer is out of date.
It tells me that it is finding 3 out-of-date files:
Once here:
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_04\bin\java.exe
Twice here:
C:\Windows\System32\java.exe
and three times here:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS3\JVM\bin\java.exe
I updated Java via the Sun website and consequently the first
and second warnings disappeared when I reran the Software
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The software inspector however is still finding an
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Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS3\JVM\bin\" or do I need to do anything
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Hi
I have the same problem of you, and the same dont find a
solution. Me it's Kaspersky Anti Virus (AV) which find this
problem.
So (and I dont know if this solution is perfect), but I open
Flash CS3 with the Java update choiced and apparently Flash
fonctionnely well and Kaspersky dont find this
prob now. But I dont never use Java in Flash (or without that
I know that..), and same, I dont know at what Java is used in Flash
I think that "JRE v 1.6.0_04" and more recent Java version is
not good, because it's not quite the same Java application that in
Flash CS3, In Flash CS3 it's "J2RE" and
not "JRE".
The history of all Java versions (and this) is here (
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/)
(but in all this versions... seriousely it's a true shambles !)
If you want the last version for J2RE in this archives it's v
1.4.2.18 but the last version is J2RE 1.4.2.19 but dont again in
this archives
(search on Java site, maybe first page ? I dont remember
where I to find it...). But the problem... it's that this last
version (19) is always detected bad by my AV...
So I decide to use just the next version (v 1.5) and last
version in this series (in archives site) which is the "JDK/JRE -
5.0 v 5.0.16" but again named "Java 2 Platform
Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 Update 16" in this dowload next
archives page
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/5.0_16/index.html),
so well again named "Java 2" in this page (that which dont
the case for the equivalent same download page for Java 6...)
(Choice "JRE 5.0 Update 16" in this page)
For instal "JRE 5.0 Update 16":
1) Supp all files and folders in "JVM" (Java Virtual Machine)
folder in Flash CS3 (but dont supp this folder, empty now) and save
this contents in archive in you have
affraid.
2) dl "JRE 5.0 Update 16", directly in this page if you want:
(https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/View ProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=jre-1.5.0_16-oth-JPR@CDS-CDS_Dev
eloper)
3) In install, choice "personal instal" (or +/- the same
terms) and choice the "JVM" folder of you Flash CS3
and AV dont detect this version same a bad file

Creating flash cs3 component

Hi,
There is great and easy way to create flash based component
in flash cs3 using action script 3.0.
I am going to make a simple My button component which will
behave likely same as flash native button component.
You can modify this according your requirement this is just
you give an idea about how we can go for creating a component in
flash cs3.
Follow these steps…
1. Create a fla file and save this file with any name
2. Create a movieClip and draw a rectangle shape on first
frame.
3. Right click on movieclip in library, select linkage
4. Provide class name in text field area [MyButton] (you can
use any name here which should matched with your class)
5. Click Ok button
6. Write class [MyButton]
(you can copy and use this)
* author @ sanjeev rajput
* [email protected]
* A flash action script 3.0 based component without extending
UIComponent class
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import fl.motion.Color;
public class MyButton extends Sprite{
private var _tf:TextField;
private var _Label:String="My Button";
private var _bgColor:uint=0xCCCCCC;
private var _rollOverColor:uint=0xFFCCCC;
private var _borderColor:uint=0x000000;
private var _borderThickness:int=1;
private var _width:Number = 100;
private var _height:Number =100;
private var _background:Sprite;
public function MyButton() {
init();
createChildren();
initEventListeners();
draw();
//-------------property section [Start]
[Inspectable]
public function set Label(lbl:String){
_Label=lbl;
draw();
public function get Label(){
return _Label
[Inspectable]
public function set bgColor(color:uint):void{
_bgColor=color;
draw();
[Inspectable]
public function set borderColor(color:uint):void{
_borderColor=color;
draw();
[Inspectable]
public function set borderThickness(thickness:int):void{
_borderThickness=thickness;
[Inspectable]
public function set rollOverColor(color:uint):void{
_rollOverColor=color;
//-------------property section [End]
private function init():void {
trace('welcome');
_width = width;
_height = height;
scaleX = 1;
scaleY = 1;
removeChildAt(0);
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addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, eventHandler);
addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, eventHandler);
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7. Now right click again on your movieclip in library and
select component definition.
8. In class name text field provide same class name
[MyButton]
9. Click on ok button
10. Right click again on movieClip in library and select
Export SWC file.
11. Same your exported SWC file in (For window only)
[c:\Documents and Settings\$user\Local Settings\Application
Data\Adobe\Flash CS3\en\Configuration\Commands\
12. Now just open another new flash file open component
panel/window reload component you will your component in component
panel with MyButton name.
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property window and text it.
Enjoy!

Lt.CYX[UGA] wrote:
> if anyone is using Flash CS3, try creating a flash
movie, using the FLVPlayer
> component to play an flv video and make it an executable
projector. Run it
> fullscreen and watch how the screen just stays black
when the video should
> appear. If you stay windowed, it works fine.
>
>
steps to reproduce:
> 1. create flash movie
> 2. put an FLVPlayer component on a frame that's not the
first (for testing
> purposes)
> 3. before the projector reaches the frame with the
FLVPlayer component, change
> it to fullscreen (by script or CTRL+F)
>
>
observed behaviour:
> not only the video doesn't play, but the whole screen is
black until the
> player goes back to windowed mode
>
>
expected behaviour:
> video should play
>
>
remarks:
> if you skip step 3, video plays correctly
>
Works just fine.
Made new movie, on frame 2 places Full screen action, on
frame 5 placed video component
and stop(); action attached to frame. Projector pops large
following by video playing
just fine.
I tried variety, first frame, many frames, all on one. Not
able to reproduce your problem.
Works on first go.
Best Regards
Urami
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder...
<urami>
If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
</urami>

"Show Transform Controls" Equivalent in Flash CS4? + Other Questions

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I've been using Adobe Flash CS3 & CS4, and I still find it ridiculously hard to navigate around that Program sometimes, mainly when I have to deal with a Pre-made Flash website that needs Editing.
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Is there any way to unlink these by chance?
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Please reply soon someone.
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The actionscript window doesn't open up for any frames on the
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action window tab appears at the top in minimized form. No matter
how many times I click on it or on the maximize button the window
doesn't open up. I tried reinstalling Flash CS3 but it didn't help.
Any help with this issue is appreciated.
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Found a solution for this atlast ! Delete the Users/AppData
folder for flash CS3 and things will be back to normal. It seems
the Flash IDE screws somewhere while saving the local users
settings. Clearing these settings restored my action window
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(flash cs3-9) subrayar texto

Hola amigos como estan, les consulto, es posible de alguna
manera poder
subrar en flash un texto estatico sin que sea de la manera
casera (una linea
a mano alzada debajo) yo no entiendo el porque en flash se
pueden hacer
aplicaciones impresionante y no se puede subrayar un texto...
saludosy
gracias

Es que no existe...por lo menos en mi cs3
"__72 DPI__" <[email protected]> escribió en
el mensaje
news:fg4p7k$8ab$[email protected]..
> Lo siento, pero no veo la U de subrayado en mi barra de
herramientas,
> puede ser que me falta activar algo en la barra de
herramientas o en las
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> muchas gracias
>
>
>
>
>
> "juan torregrosa" <[email protected]>
escribió en el mensaje
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>> cuando escribes texto en flash CS3 al lado de la
opcion de negrita (con
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>>
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>>> saludosy gracias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>

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is it possible to create very simple data inventory for
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This is not for online purpose... the application contain a
form where users can enter data about the books like date returned
and so on..

you're welcome :)
1) that is correct. unfortunately, we can't 'write' to an xml
file from Flash, one needs to parse the data sent from Flash using
a server-side script such as php to perform the actual writing of
the file and store it to a directory location. so in this sense, it
may be 'easier' to use a local database and server (running on the
same machine) and use a intermediary 'helper' interface such as
amfphp.
2) Flash does contain several classes to work with xml data
internally, and is quite powerful in that regard. however, if you
opt to use a system like a DB and amfphp, it can use 'regular'
Flash objects to send and receive data and handles the conversion
automatically, so would ultimately be both simpler to implement and
very very fast. some basics on amfphp can be found here:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=78
(don't worry about your English, it's just fine :)

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My engineering team has used Flex to create a nice little swc
for me to use inside of Flash CS3, but now I'm having trouble
finding any documentation on how to actually import it. Placing it
in the Components folder doesn't work, as it's not recognized by
the Components window (either as an AS2 or AS3 swc). Is it even
possible to use swcs from Flex in Flash? Thank you very much for
the help.
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Use these links
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7f22.html
Creating Flex Libraries
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to be published as an Actionscript 3.0 file, so I have set my
publish settings to Flash Player 9.0 and Actionscript 3.0, but keep
getting an error as follows:
"WARNING: The component 'FLVPlayback' requires ActionScript
2.0."
Has anyone encountered this?? I am doing something wrong? I'm
pretty comfortable within Actionscript/Flash 2.0, but am only
beginning my first steps into the relam of CS3 and AS3.
I have also attached a screenshot of the files that represent
my FLVPlayback component (or so I assume). (see this link for
attachments
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=140886)
Thanks all,
Mark
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=140886

Mark,
> I have set my publish settings to Flash Player 9.0 and
Actionscript
> 3.0, but keep getting an error as follows:
>
> "WARNING: The component 'FLVPlayback' requires
ActionScript 2.0."
Gotcha. You must have started the document in AS2, then
changed the
publish settings. Each version of the language has its own
version of the
FLVPlayback Component (written in the relevant language).
Start over and
compare two compleley new FLA documents: make one for AS3 and
one for AS2.
Open the Components panel and note the differences between
the two. There
are a different set of Components depending on the language
chosen for the
document. Drag the FLVPlayback Component from the Components
panel in an
AS3 document, and you'll have the AS3 version.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/2k29mj
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Error embed / insert Flash CS3 9.0 swf in Acrobat 8.1.2

Goal: embed Flash swf file in Acrobat pdf.
Software: Flash CS3 9.0, Acrobat Pro 8.1.2, Mac OS 10.5.2 (all updates applied as available 3/27/08). If it matters: Quicktime Player 7.4.1. All swf files are associated to open with Flash Player 9 (9,0,115,0).
Hardware: PowerMac Dual 2GHz G5, 9.5 GB RAM
Error Description: This error is seen on 2 out of 3 PowerMacs; the 3rd PowerMac will inexplicably work. Here is what is done to receive error: Open pdf document in Acrobat. Select Movie Tool from Advanced Editing Toolbar, choose swf file from Desktop (pdf file is also saved on Desktop to eliminate network considerations). All defaults are retained in dialog window, when "OK" is pressed, status message "Initializing authoring system" appears and remains indefinitely. "Cancel" is pressed and produces following error message window: "Cannot create the movie annotation because the movie could not be loaded. This can occur if the file cannot be found or the URL is unreachable (make sure proxy server settings are correct)."
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I believe that the latest version of QuickTime which you no doubt have installed does not support the latest version of Flash (9.0). Since Acrobat depends on QuickTime for multimedia in Acrobat 8 Professional, this feature breaks.
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Quicktime movie export from Flash CS3 is skipping frame.

When I try to export Quicktime movie from Flash CS3, the
resulting mov file is skipping frames. i.e.: The movie is showing
frame number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 15
etc...
As you can see the frame number 7 is repeated 3 times and
frame 8 and 9 are nowhere to be found.
The last configuration I used is 960x540, Sorenson video 3
medium quality, 25 fps, keyframe every 25 frames. 6400 kbits/s.
I tried various configurations,with different codecs and even
with keyframe all frames and I always get simillar problems.
Anyone have an idea what is going on, and how to fix this?
Thank you,
Olivier.

The QT exporter in Flash is honestly my least favorite
feature - not the feature itself but how it
works (or how it doesn't work in some cases). For me it is
almost unusable unless you have a very
short timeline, small stage, lower frame rate - like AS
generated effects or something - otherwise,
for true frame accuracy to video output - it is not reliable
enough and not fast enough for any real
world production environment.
So typically for me - I love SWF2Video (www.flashants.com) as
it takes any SWF and makes it into an
AVI that is frame accurate no matter what the frame rate is -
quite incredible - enough so that I
always felt it should have been bundled with Flash (as well
as Wacom tablets).
Harmony is an incredible product - as is SOLO and TBS (Toon
Boom mStudio) - each of those programs
are dedicated animation programs designed for output to video
- Flash has a lot of hats to fill and
it was never really designed for animation to video even
though many of us have found it suitable
for all intents and purposes as an animation program for full
production.
But all in all - the quicktime exporter doesn't really
deliver how we would expect it too I am sorry
to say - I only hope it works as well as it does on the Mac
(Mac users could always choose to export
to Quicktime Video but not PC users).
For now if I am exporting to video I keep it all on the
timeline or nested in Graphic symbols or use
the SWF2Video tool.
hope this helps.
-chris
Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
Community Expert
OBastien wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Chris.
>
> I tried different possible solutions you listed but it's
not working.
> Disabling sound had no effects. Changing the FPS is not
an option, it has to be
> 25 FPS. I lowered the resolution to 300 something, it
seemed to be a little bit
> better, but it still dropped some frame, and the image
quality was horrible.
>
> I think it is really sad that we have to try different
settings in the hope
> that flash will grab all the frames. I'm really
disapointed in Adobe. I'm
> pretty sure it is the fault of Adobe and not Apple,
because I don't have does
> problems with Quicktime in ToonBoom Harmony. What is
strange is when I do an
> AVI export I never noticed a dropped frame. I'm not
using AVI video right now
> because I can not find a codec that gives me small size,
fast encoding times,
> the ability to seek in the movie by dragging the
timeline progress bar, and the
> possibility to edit in After Effects. If you know an AVI
codec that does all
> that it would be really great news.
>
> Thank you again,
> Olivier.
>

How to add special characters in Flash CS3

Hi, i need the help of some flash guru… these last weeks we were working with cloversites.com to build a community website… the interface is awesome etc etc however we in Malta have eight special characters (GCZ with a dot on top of them and an H with a second strikethrough). Those at cloversites wrestled with the problem, they could see the characters on their computers but when they entered the text in the site, flash couldn't render the special characters. Here is their message:
I am extremely sorry about this, but we were unable to add in your characters. We attempted to add them into our software but they did not work. We worked on it all morning and realized that we need an extra add-on for our keyboards. Adding special characters is nothing new to us and have answered this request for many of our international users. For some reason, the Maltese characters did not work in our sites. For example, our "option-G" is the copyright symbol so it will need to be transferred over to international characters.
Unfortunately, we thing that this has to do with Adobe Flash CS3. The software allowed me to embed the characters, but we were unable to render them on the web. Which led us to think it had to do with the version Adobe is running and its inability to render the text through its software on the web. None of the characters worked on the web, and it looks like its just an Adobe bug. So we are able to type and use the Maltese characters, but Adobe Flash is having trouble with them.
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